I’m a member of a number of forums reflective of my interests. Few of them (two exactly) are as easy to read and navigate as is FreeRepublic. The other website/forum is also “wrapped in 90’s-era HTML”.
I make my living in the technology sector, but I hate techy stuff just because it is the latest techy stuff - that goes for those miserable complex websites which bounce and flash and are nearly impossible to navigate. Technology should be efficient and serve the user, not the other way around.
JimRob - I trust you will ignore the jibs and keep things the way they are.
I work in the tech sector also - we have an old addage represented by an acronym - KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid. Works well in most areas (!)
Listen, I just gave to the Freepathon for the first time (I’m fairly new here) - let’s dig down and give. It takes money to host this site, to pay for the servers and admin on the site, to protect it from attacks and so forth. As someone else mentioned - give $20, or $5 - give more if you can.
Daily Kos is vitriolic and acidic, smug and self righteous - and they accuse of being so. I suppose there’s a lesson here related to true humility for all of us. That’s one big reason why I pray, actually. The Scriptures say, ‘love does not brag and is not arrogant.’ Let us strive to that ideal as we seek the truth. That same passage says, love ‘does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth.’